[Air-L] Methods question

[Denise N. Rall]

Derek -

Sally McMillan's review on measurements of
interactivity might help here.
McMillan, S.J. (2002).  Exploring Models of
Interactivity from Multiple                    
Research Traditions: Users, Documents, And Systems. 
In L. Lievrouw and S. Livingston (Eds.), Handbook of
New Media (pp. 162-182).  London:  Sage.


You should review the voluminous work of Sheizaf
Rafaeli for how to determine various types of measures
of engagement and participation in CMC environments.
http://sheizaf.rafaeli.net/ >> Academic Publications

The GDOF group in Germany is brilliant
methodologically, this is the easiest citation I can
find, but they have many, many more:
Batinic, B., U.-D. Reips, et al., Eds. (2002). Online
Social Sciences. Seattle, Hogrefe & Huber.

I'm sure there's more but these could give you a good
start in previous methodological approaches to 
comparing CMC/IRL activity(ies).

Cheers, Denise



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